What outsiders often don't realize about Pennsylvania...

[Deminpenn]

29. Santorum and Corbett

What carried these two were their western PA roots. WPa voters are extremely parochial and vote at higher rates than the eastern part of the state that tends to give them more clout than the raw voter registration numbers suggest.

Santorum ultimately lost because offended those same voters by moving and living in VA despite claiming he still lived in Penn Hills, got his kids a tuition-free cyber charter school education and blew off jury duty.

Corbett was the 1st governor to be denied a 2nd term, losing to Wolf, because he infuriated a large portion of Penn State alumni with the "leak" of the GJ report on Sandusky that threw Paterno, who was by then a dying, old man, under the bus. (The GJ report was "accidentally" posted on the Atty Gen website, "discovered" then pulled down, but was up long enough for many people to dowload a copy.)